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We are now just a week away from the 2017 NHL Trade Deadline.
With that in mind, for this week’s edition of What Would You Do Wednesday, we
thought we’d look at some of the rental options potentially available to the
Oilers.
The Rental Market
The chart above shows 25 potential deadline rentals, as well
as Edmonton’s three significant unrestricted free agents. For potential
acquisitions, we’ve assigned a cost in draft picks, players and futures. We’ve
also assigned a potential return for the Oilers expiring contracts.
The task for you, the reader, is pretty straight forward.
Which rentals would you be willing to pony up for as Oilers general manager?
Would you be willing to move any of Edmonton’s pending UFAs? Let us know in the
comments section.
THE #PRAYFORPLAYOFFS PARTY
As you probably expected, the Pray for Playoffs party will be happening at the Pint Downtown on Friday, February 24th, with doors opening at 4pm and the hockey game starting at 5pm. Aside from making sure we’re all well hydrated, we’ve got the usual swag bags planned along with raffles, giveaways, and more. I encourage you to start coughing now so that your boss won’t be suspicious when you call in sick.
As always, it wouldn’t be a Nation party without trying to raise as much money as possible for our charity partner, Sport Central. If you’re unfamiliar with their work, Sport Central is a local organization dedicated to making resources available to assist kids in sports in the Edmonton area as well as central and northern Alberta.
Your $20 ticket gets you:
- A Pray for Playoffs Party t-shirt
- A $20 Pint GC
- $10 worth of Oodle Noodle GCs
- A lottery ticket for our door prizes
- Access to the exclusive Pray for Playoffs NationGear launch
- You’ll be in attendance for the re-launch of NationBeer! Yes, we have our own beer now. Not only that, we’ll buy a beer for the first 100 people to show up with their ticket as a thank you for your support.
As always, all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated directly to Sport Central so bring your friends, get involved, and help us support a community in need. You can get your tickets here before they sell out.
This is a party that’s been 10 years in the making and you’re going to want to be a part of it.
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Bring back Yak, should be very cheap and can play with McD
Ah, nice to have a comedian leave a mark.
If your costs are realistic? Boyle & Vanek please. Just make the picks from 2017.
Edmonton doesn’t have a 2017 second round pick.
Yes we do. We have not surrendered it to Boston yet.
And if I’m not mistaken (which I very well could be), if we do end up trading that pick, then it automatically transfers to next year. But as of Draft day 2017 (and assuming we already traded our 2nd round pick), then that 2018 2nd rounder will officially become Boston property (as it cannot transfer another year).
If it will make us better for this season’s playoffs, then the 2nd round pick should be made available. And worry about the compensory pick to Boston next year.
Edmonton had three years to send a second-rounder to Boston as compensation for Chiarelli. They didn’t in 2015 or 2016, which means they have no choice but to do it in 2017.
Now I know what I was thinking of, it was in the case of an offer sheet. Then we would be able to defer to 2018 on the 2nd round pick.
Lowtide posted about this when there was talk of a possible offer sheet to Seth Jones.
http://oilersnation.com/2016/5/21/thanks-nhlpa